16th Nov, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
British, European & Sporting Art
1042
Wright Barker RBA (1864-1941)
Two foals standing in a Summer landscape
Signed, oil on canvas, 63.5cm by 76.5cm
Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £2,000 - £2,500
Unlined, all keys present, fair tension. Patches of brittle age craquelure and minor impact cracks, all appear pretty flat and stable. Some patches of finescale drying cracks including where there are slight pentiments visible around the foals' ears. Minor unrestored loss in sky above foals. A patch of brushy dark overpaint? to top right corner (see images). To further old restored losses, with associated patches of adhesive on the reverse, to either side of the grass. One has been filled, and both covered with big strokes of overpaint (see images in UV). A little ingrained dirt and a few scattered dirty marks and flyspots. Even, fairly low-gloss varnish, light surface dirt.
Auction: British, European & Sporting Art, 16th Nov, 2024
The Autumn British, European and Sporting Art Sale will include a sun-drenched work by British Impressionist painter Dorothea Sharp, two works by Louis H Grimshaw consigned from a private collection, and notable genre pieces by the likes of Giovanni Battista Torriglia and Charles Spencelayh.
A good offering of figural works include a male figure attributed to York-born artist William Etty, and 17th and 18th century portraits, and amongst the Sporting art are examples of the work of Robert Nightingale and Wright Barker.
The sale will go on view to the public from Sunday 10th November, alongside The Selected Contents of Bell Hall, Naburn, York, which will also offer a broad range of traditional and contemporary paintings.
Please note the following lots have been withdrawn from sale: 1080, 1086, 1093, 1094
Viewing
Sunday 10 November to Friday 15 November 11am-4pm and morning of the sale from 8am
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